(April 14, 2014 at 11:23 am)alpha male Wrote:(April 14, 2014 at 12:41 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: I think that's the slippery slope fallacy, that assumption when A happens then B will necessarily follow, without having done the research to properly conclude A leads to B.Another recent example was Bill Nye arguing that a rejection of evolution will lead to losses in all sciences.
A famous and fairly recent example was when the fundies were arguing against gay marriage, saying, "if we allow that, next we'll be allowing incest and beastiality and underage marriage, etc."
I bolded the parts of the definition of "slippery slope" to help out with where you got confused. The identification of this fallacy is not to say cause and effect can't ever be linked. It's the assumption of inevitability without any cause to think so.
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